Retroactive Poems

Brooding Presence

...being adventurous mammalians
we seek to avoid the repetition of pain
and encounter the repetition of pleasure
which might be why the ones who have everything
take from those who have nothing
jus...

Fed Up

...
Fed Up (with the Shutdown)



Go to work everyday,
but I don’t get paid
MasterCard creditor chain letters
said I was a New America
	    debt slave

Was Union told the Federate zero...

What Is Truth

...
What is Truth?
2/1/2018

Of late, many use the media to establish a claim,
After retroactive years, I question, is revenge their game?
On harassment claims, some that happened years ag...

Black Powder Mist

...Black Powder Mist




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Dance In the Mist

...

A dance in the mist
You'll surely be missed
Like blessed nostalgia
It worms into your heart
Like retroactive reactions
Of everything you failed to do
In the moment so blind
Gai...

Violation of Body Electric Beyond Flattery Where Victimhood Prevails

...a sudden Bonanza viz sexual abuse among 
faux Green Acres within Mayberry RFD
now spells showtime for The Avengers, Batman 
and Robin to Get Smart
take to heart (what haint no new bob bing beast)...

Blue Horizon Rainbows Promise

...In your weather beaten mind;
Clouded with mistrust and filled with guile;
Alone and trouble child son of man;
Son of God;

Crashed and trashed venom cauterizing your ears;
Sneaking pass the lev...

River of Blood

...


...Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the
great dragon that lieth in the midst of his
rivers, which hath said, My river is mine
own, and I have m...

If Smiles Were Not Free

...If smiles were not free,
Could they tax you and me?
Is happiness a luxury?
In Monopoly, there is a tax for such a frivolous activity.
Is sadness and pain a liability?
If so, can you claim it as ...

Reparation

...Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Reparation
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014


Why  can't we 
get paid?

We want 
our
reparation,

for 
lost wages
of
our labor,

since
the
Atlan...

Retroactive

...Passé is age.
You have sage.
Never believe that you were not the same in your younger days.
You know you are a savant of reflection.
Mystified are your people of your different directions.

Retro is ...

Free Cee Motivation Is On Vacation But My Cancer Never Goes Away

...MOTIVATION IS ON VACATION BUT CANCER NEVER 
                         GOES AWAY

They give me only one simple answer
and that is “it's only malignant cancer”
so they ran out of my medication
and no on...

Free Cee Motivation Is On Vacation But Cancer Never Goes Away

...MOTIVATION IS ON VACATION BUT CANCER NEVER 
                         GOES AWAY

They give me only one simple answer
and that is “it's only malignant cancer”
so they ran out of my medication
and...

Too Soon a Spattoon By Poefree For She

...s
        TOO SOON A SPITTOON 

Somehow he has survived
Through due diligence and by sequestering his soul off the corner of “Hate Street” and “Greed 
Avenue.  
From a muddled maze in a mind bl...

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